The Yusuf Hamied 1702 Chair of Chemistry is one of the senior

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at the

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, based in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

History

Founded in 1702 by the university as simply 'Professor of Chemistry', it was retitled as the Professorship of

Organic Chemistry Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds and organic materials, i.e., matter in its various forms that contain carbon atoms.Clayden, ...

in 1943, and in 1991 was renamed after a benefaction from the oil company British Petroleum. In recognition of a donation from

Yusuf Hamied Yusuf Khwaja Hamied (born 25 July 1936) is an Indian scientist, billionaire businessman and the chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935. He is also an elected fellow of the Indian ...

, in 2018 the professorship was renamed the Yusuf Hamied 1702 Chair of Chemistry.

Professors of Chemistry

Giovanni Francisco Vigani Giovanni Francisco Vigani (c. 1650–1712), known also as John Francis, was an Italian chemist who became the first BP Professor of Organic Chemistry, professor of chemistry in the University of Cambridge. Life Vigani was born at Verona about the ...

(1703–1713) * John Waller (1713–1718) * John Mickleburgh (1718–1756) *

John Hadley John Hadley (16 April 1682 – 14 February 1744) was an English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same. Biography He was born in Bloomsbury, London the eldest son of ...

(1756–1764) * Richard Watson (1764–1771) * Isaac Pennington (1773–1793) *

William Farish William Farish may refer to: Senin varyoxunu... Dalbayov Gicdıllaq * William Farish (chemist) (1759–1837), tutor at the University of Cambridge * William Stamps Farish I (1843–1899) * William Stamps Farish II (1881–1942), Standard Oil preside ...

(1794–1813) *

Smithson Tennant Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815) was an English chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803. He also con ...

(1813–1815) * James Cumming (1815–1861) * George Downing Liveing (1861–1908) *

William Jackson Pope Sir William Jackson Pope (31 March 1870 – 17 October 1939) was an English chemist. Biography William Jackson Pope was born on 31 March 1870 in Hoxton to William (a saddler) and Alice (née Hall). His parents were staunch and active Wesl ...

(1908–1939)

Professors of Organic Chemistry

* Alexander Robertus Todd (1944–1971) * Ralph Alexander Raphael (1972–1988) * Alan Rushton Battersby (1988–1992)

BP 1702 Professor of Organic Chemistry

Steven V. Ley Steven Victor Ley (born 10 December 1945) is Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000� ...

(1992–2019)

Yusuf Hamied 1702 Professors of Chemistry

* Matthew J. Gaunt (2019–)

References

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